Gregg, I would love to see that expanded upon more within your work, because you're right it's there but it seems mostly represented as pathological or deviant/aberrant aspects of the core concepts making up the ToK versus stand alone entities on their own (i.e., the serpent vs the tree). 

And to that point, would there not be correspondent ontological levels that are 'so below' whereby processes of dysfunction and entropy evolve/diversify in ways uniquely destructive to each emergent joint point and floor? A thought means nothing to an atom or a cell and debatably a nervous system (depending on what you define a thought as), but thoughts as ideas of proposition or truth claims literally rule our lives. 

Like Mind3 is as chaotic and "messed up" as it is driven and goal-directed as embeded within culture contexts and situational and behavioral contingencies (i.e., "justifications" across levels). Not sure how clear that is.

Regards,

Nicholas G. Lattanzio, Psy.D.

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Gregg and Greg,

A similar though slightly different angle offered by Austrian poet, Rainer Maria Rilke:

“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”

Thanks for the perspectives,

Ali

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Hi TOK Folks,

 

  Please check out Jewel Kinch-Thomas’ latest from the Jazz Leadership Project on “antagonistic cooperation,” which I think is a fascinating concept:

https://www.tuneintoleadership.com/blog/antagonistic-cooperation-advancing-through-challenge

 

Among other things, It talks about how challenges are opportunities for growth, and at one point frames them as “dragons.” I like this frame especially. Folks sometimes ask me about the Garden, and whether it is too focused on the “light” and wisdom and positive being. When that comes up, I remind folks its origin, which is in the clinic room, facing human psychological suffering, angst, and crises in meaning and mental health. To which I then say, the dragon (or if you like, staying with the overall metaphor, the serpent) resides just behind the Tree of Life. It is there and central to the Garden’s essence. Indeed, the Garden is positioned in relationship to the dragon, perhaps in a way that can be framed as a kind of “antagonistic cooperation.”


Best,
Gregg

 

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